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SitRep - 15/07/26 - Zelensky replaced Fedorov
An overview of the daily events in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. As expected, Zelensky made a big mistake and dismissed Fedorov as minister of defense. Causing widespread backlash in Ukrainian society.
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An overview of the daily events in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. As expected, Zelensky made a big mistake and dismissed Fedorov as minister of defense. Causing widespread backlash in Ukrainian society.
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Microsoft spent $13 billion on AI. Then gave every Windows user a free AI assistant.
Most people type one question and close the window.
Copilot in 2026 isn't a chatbot anymore. It's an AI system woven into Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, Edge, Windows, and OneDrive with features no standalone AI tool can match.
It generates presentations from a sentence. Summarizes 100-email threads in 3 seconds. Creates pivot tables by asking in English. Answers your phone calls when you're busy. Builds custom AI agents without code. And now lets you choose between GPT and Claude's models depending on the task.
A productivity consultant who tested every AI platform in 2026 told me:
"ChatGPT is the best standalone chatbot. Gemini is the best Google integration. Copilot is the best work integration. If you use Microsoft 365, it's not even close and most people are using 5% of it."
Here are 11 Copilot features most users have never discovered 🧵
Most people type one question and close the window.
Copilot in 2026 isn't a chatbot anymore. It's an AI system woven into Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, Edge, Windows, and OneDrive with features no standalone AI tool can match.
It generates presentations from a sentence. Summarizes 100-email threads in 3 seconds. Creates pivot tables by asking in English. Answers your phone calls when you're busy. Builds custom AI agents without code. And now lets you choose between GPT and Claude's models depending on the task.
A productivity consultant who tested every AI platform in 2026 told me:
"ChatGPT is the best standalone chatbot. Gemini is the best Google integration. Copilot is the best work integration. If you use Microsoft 365, it's not even close and most people are using 5% of it."
Here are 11 Copilot features most users have never discovered 🧵
1. Mode Switcher change how Copilot thinks before you ask.
Most people type a question and accept whatever Copilot gives them. They don't realize they can change the mode first.
Open Copilot → look for the mode toggle:
Quick Response fast, concise answers. Best for simple questions and quick tasks.
Think Deeper detailed, analytical outputs. Best for complex problems, planning, and research.
Auto Copilot decides which mode fits the prompt.
You can also switch between AI models. GPT for creative writing and brainstorming. Claude for logical reasoning, long-document analysis, and structured outputs.
Most users leave everything on "Auto" forever. Switching to Think Deeper before a complex prompt dramatically improves the quality. Switching to Claude before analyzing a 50-page document dramatically improves the accuracy.
One toggle. Same free tool. Completely different output.
Most people type a question and accept whatever Copilot gives them. They don't realize they can change the mode first.
Open Copilot → look for the mode toggle:
Quick Response fast, concise answers. Best for simple questions and quick tasks.
Think Deeper detailed, analytical outputs. Best for complex problems, planning, and research.
Auto Copilot decides which mode fits the prompt.
You can also switch between AI models. GPT for creative writing and brainstorming. Claude for logical reasoning, long-document analysis, and structured outputs.
Most users leave everything on "Auto" forever. Switching to Think Deeper before a complex prompt dramatically improves the quality. Switching to Claude before analyzing a 50-page document dramatically improves the accuracy.
One toggle. Same free tool. Completely different output.
2. Copilot in Excel the feature that replaces a data analyst.
This is the feature that justifies the entire Microsoft 365 subscription.
Open any spreadsheet. Click the Copilot icon. Type in English.
"Create a pivot table showing revenue by region with a trendline chart."
Excel builds it. In seconds. From your data. With formatting.
"Highlight all rows where profit margin is below 10%."
Done. Conditional formatting applied.
"What are the top 5 customers by total spend this quarter?"
Answered. With a chart. From your actual numbers.
No formulas. No VLOOKUP. No pivot table menus. Just type what you want in plain English. Excel does the rest.
A financial analyst spent 6 hours building a monthly report manually. Her intern typed one sentence into Copilot. Excel built the same report in 8 seconds. She learned 7 prompts that cut her Excel work by 80%.
This is the feature that justifies the entire Microsoft 365 subscription.
Open any spreadsheet. Click the Copilot icon. Type in English.
"Create a pivot table showing revenue by region with a trendline chart."
Excel builds it. In seconds. From your data. With formatting.
"Highlight all rows where profit margin is below 10%."
Done. Conditional formatting applied.
"What are the top 5 customers by total spend this quarter?"
Answered. With a chart. From your actual numbers.
No formulas. No VLOOKUP. No pivot table menus. Just type what you want in plain English. Excel does the rest.
A financial analyst spent 6 hours building a monthly report manually. Her intern typed one sentence into Copilot. Excel built the same report in 8 seconds. She learned 7 prompts that cut her Excel work by 80%.
1/ Six days after October 7th, a genocide studies professor declared Israel's response "textbook genocide" — before a single independent casualty count existed and week before an IDF soldier entered Gaza.
2/ A year later Amnesty admitted, on page 101 of its own report, that it was rejecting the ICJ's actual legal standard because that standard "would effectively preclude a finding of genocide." Internal staff at Amnesty revealed the report was called "the genocide report" before the research even began.
3/ None of this happened to Myanmar, Syria, or Sudan — all more brutal, all with clearer evidence of intent, all treated with years of caution before anyone reached for the word. Only Israel gets convicted first and investigated after.
ABB India jumped as much as 10% today before easing back, near its 52-week high.
The trigger wasn't the company's own results. It was one slide in its Swiss parent's Q2 report.
ABB Group's order intake from India: +81% year-on-year. One of the standout numbers in the entire presentation. (1/9)
The trigger wasn't the company's own results. It was one slide in its Swiss parent's Q2 report.
ABB Group's order intake from India: +81% year-on-year. One of the standout numbers in the entire presentation. (1/9)
That matters because ABB India sits at the centre of India's industrial capex cycle.
The company has been in the country for over a century, operates six manufacturing locations, and sells across three business areas: Electrification (switchgear, power distribution), Motion (motors, drives) and Automation (process control). Together they serve metros, railways, metals, cement, renewables and buildings. (2/9)
The company has been in the country for over a century, operates six manufacturing locations, and sells across three business areas: Electrification (switchgear, power distribution), Motion (motors, drives) and Automation (process control). Together they serve metros, railways, metals, cement, renewables and buildings. (2/9)
One of the fastest-growing corners is data centres.
On its last earnings call, management put them at around 12–16% of the order book.
ABB supplies the electrical backbone: switchgear to bring power in, UPS for protection, and the motors and drives used in cooling. Among last quarter's key orders were projects for a data centre and a metro rail network.
Source: ABB India Q1 CY2026 investor presentation and earnings call. (3/9)
On its last earnings call, management put them at around 12–16% of the order book.
ABB supplies the electrical backbone: switchgear to bring power in, UPS for protection, and the motors and drives used in cooling. Among last quarter's key orders were projects for a data centre and a metro rail network.
Source: ABB India Q1 CY2026 investor presentation and earnings call. (3/9)
The newest Alzheimer's treatment cost $30,000 a year, and can cause brain hemorrhages in up to 30% of people who take it.
According to Dr. David Pearlmutter, a neurologist who's spent 40+ years studying the brain.
So why would anyone take it? (1/16)
According to Dr. David Pearlmutter, a neurologist who's spent 40+ years studying the brain.
So why would anyone take it? (1/16)
The treatment is Leqembi. It works by clearing amyloid plauqe, the sticky protein that builds up in the brain believed to cause Alzheimer's.
It's given by IV every two weeks, and progress is tracked with brain scans.
An 18-month trial found it slowed decline by 1.5 months, but almost a third of them had brain swelling or small bleeds.
It's given by IV every two weeks, and progress is tracked with brain scans.
An 18-month trial found it slowed decline by 1.5 months, but almost a third of them had brain swelling or small bleeds.
So why was it created in the first place?
Donepezil was the go-to drug for decades. It raised acetylcholine, a brain chemical found low in Alzheimer's, which only managed Alzheimer's symptoms.
Donepezil was the go-to drug for decades. It raised acetylcholine, a brain chemical found low in Alzheimer's, which only managed Alzheimer's symptoms.
Azov and Khartiia commanders backed Ihor Klymenko for defense minister.
Khartiia's Obolenskyi: He can turn resources into battlefield results, reform the army and grow arms production.
Azov's Prokopenko: He knows the front, worked on the corps system and can fix mobilization.1/
Khartiia's Obolenskyi: He can turn resources into battlefield results, reform the army and grow arms production.
Azov's Prokopenko: He knows the front, worked on the corps system and can fix mobilization.1/
Obolenskyi: A wartime defense minister must turn resources into battlefield results, reform the army, and grow defense industry.
It is like changing a race car’s wheels while driving. Ihor Klymenko is worthy of this new challenge.
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It is like changing a race car’s wheels while driving. Ihor Klymenko is worthy of this new challenge.
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Prokopenko: In a short time as defense minister, Fedorov strengthened Ukraine’s defense and weakened Russia’s military power.
Klymenko knows front-line needs, worked on the corps system, defended National Guard soldiers, and has the experience to fix mobilization.
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Klymenko knows front-line needs, worked on the corps system, defended National Guard soldiers, and has the experience to fix mobilization.
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A guy used AirPods Max for 2 years.
He pressed play. He pressed pause. He toggled noise cancellation on planes. He answered calls.
That was it. 4 features. On a $549 device with 30+.
His coworker, a sound engineer at a recording studio, borrowed them for 10 minutes at lunch and handed them back with a look.
"You've never opened Settings once, have you? Apple built 9 features into these that change how you hear music, take calls, focus at work, navigate conversations, and protect your hearing. They're buried 3 menus deep and never mentioned in any ad. You've been wearing a $549 pair of headphones and using them like a $30 pair from the airport."
He spent 12 minutes in Settings that evening.
His music sounded different. His calls got clearer. He stopped removing his headphones every time someone talked to him. He hasn't touched a competing pair since.
Here's every feature his coworker showed him 🧵
He pressed play. He pressed pause. He toggled noise cancellation on planes. He answered calls.
That was it. 4 features. On a $549 device with 30+.
His coworker, a sound engineer at a recording studio, borrowed them for 10 minutes at lunch and handed them back with a look.
"You've never opened Settings once, have you? Apple built 9 features into these that change how you hear music, take calls, focus at work, navigate conversations, and protect your hearing. They're buried 3 menus deep and never mentioned in any ad. You've been wearing a $549 pair of headphones and using them like a $30 pair from the airport."
He spent 12 minutes in Settings that evening.
His music sounded different. His calls got clearer. He stopped removing his headphones every time someone talked to him. He hasn't touched a competing pair since.
Here's every feature his coworker showed him 🧵
First what the AirPods Max actually are underneath the play button.
Apple didn't build expensive headphones. They built a spatial audio computer that sits on your head. Inside the ear cups are 9 microphones, the H2 chip, a gyroscope, an accelerometer, and a processing engine powerful enough to analyze your environment 200 times per second and adjust sound in real time.
Most owners use none of this. They pair the headphones, press play, toggle noise cancellation when it gets loud, and assume that's everything. The other 26 features sit behind an iPhone Settings screen that the average owner visits once during the initial pairing and never opens again.
The sound engineer knew this because he'd tested $2,000 studio headphones for a living. He said the AirPods Max were the most capable consumer headphones he'd ever held. And the most underused. Because Apple buries the features that justify the $549 price tag behind menus most buyers never find.
Here are the 9 features he turned on.
Apple didn't build expensive headphones. They built a spatial audio computer that sits on your head. Inside the ear cups are 9 microphones, the H2 chip, a gyroscope, an accelerometer, and a processing engine powerful enough to analyze your environment 200 times per second and adjust sound in real time.
Most owners use none of this. They pair the headphones, press play, toggle noise cancellation when it gets loud, and assume that's everything. The other 26 features sit behind an iPhone Settings screen that the average owner visits once during the initial pairing and never opens again.
The sound engineer knew this because he'd tested $2,000 studio headphones for a living. He said the AirPods Max were the most capable consumer headphones he'd ever held. And the most underused. Because Apple buries the features that justify the $549 price tag behind menus most buyers never find.
Here are the 9 features he turned on.
Feature 1: He scanned his ears and turned on Personalized Spatial Audio.
This was the first thing he did. He opened Settings on the iPhone, tapped the AirPods Max at the top of the screen, scrolled to Personalized Spatial Audio, and tapped "Personalize Spatial Audio."
The iPhone's TrueDepth camera scanned both ears. It took 30 seconds. The phone built a 3D model of his ear shape and head geometry. From that moment on, every sound the AirPods Max played was tuned specifically to how his ears receive audio.
Without this scan, Spatial Audio uses a generic profile an averaged approximation of how most people hear. With it, the sound field matches his exact anatomy. Instruments separate. The soundstage widens. Vocals lock into position in front of him instead of floating somewhere vaguely inside his skull.
He said it sounded like someone had removed a thin blanket he didn't know was there. The music was the same. The headphones were the same. The profile changed everything.
He'd owned them for 2 years and never knew his AirPods Max were playing a generic version of every song.
This was the first thing he did. He opened Settings on the iPhone, tapped the AirPods Max at the top of the screen, scrolled to Personalized Spatial Audio, and tapped "Personalize Spatial Audio."
The iPhone's TrueDepth camera scanned both ears. It took 30 seconds. The phone built a 3D model of his ear shape and head geometry. From that moment on, every sound the AirPods Max played was tuned specifically to how his ears receive audio.
Without this scan, Spatial Audio uses a generic profile an averaged approximation of how most people hear. With it, the sound field matches his exact anatomy. Instruments separate. The soundstage widens. Vocals lock into position in front of him instead of floating somewhere vaguely inside his skull.
He said it sounded like someone had removed a thin blanket he didn't know was there. The music was the same. The headphones were the same. The profile changed everything.
He'd owned them for 2 years and never knew his AirPods Max were playing a generic version of every song.
Warren Buffett called him a superinvestor
Wall Street barely knows his name
He beat the market for nearly 50 consecutive years from a single room with no computer, no team, and no MBA
This is the story of Walter Schloss, the greatest investor nobody talks about
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Wall Street barely knows his name
He beat the market for nearly 50 consecutive years from a single room with no computer, no team, and no MBA
This is the story of Walter Schloss, the greatest investor nobody talks about
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Walter Schloss did not go to college
At 18, in 1934, he got a job as a runner on Wall Street The Great Depression was still fresh Most people wanted nothing to do with stocks
Schloss was fascinated
He started taking night classes taught by a professor named Benjamin Graham One of his classmates was Gus Levy — the future chairman of Goldman Sachs
But Schloss wasn't chasing prestige He just wanted to understand how to find value
That quiet obsession would carry him for the next 70 years
At 18, in 1934, he got a job as a runner on Wall Street The Great Depression was still fresh Most people wanted nothing to do with stocks
Schloss was fascinated
He started taking night classes taught by a professor named Benjamin Graham One of his classmates was Gus Levy — the future chairman of Goldman Sachs
But Schloss wasn't chasing prestige He just wanted to understand how to find value
That quiet obsession would carry him for the next 70 years
After studying under Graham, Schloss went to work directly for him at the Graham-Newman Partnership
There he shared an office with a young analyst named Warren Buffett
In 1955 Buffett left to start his own fund Schloss left too — with $100,000 from a small group of investors
He rented a single room inside the offices of Tweedy Browne in New York No secretary No research team No Bloomberg terminal Just him, his son Edwin who joined in 1973, and the Value Line Investment Survey
That was his entire operation for nearly five decades
There he shared an office with a young analyst named Warren Buffett
In 1955 Buffett left to start his own fund Schloss left too — with $100,000 from a small group of investors
He rented a single room inside the offices of Tweedy Browne in New York No secretary No research team No Bloomberg terminal Just him, his son Edwin who joined in 1973, and the Value Line Investment Survey
That was his entire operation for nearly five decades
1/ Russian warbloggers are wondering how it was possible for Ukraine to destroy the Russian border patrol ship Izumrud while it was at anchor. The vessel was reportedly hit by two Ukrainian Sargan-3000 uncrewed surface vessels (USVs). ⬇️
2/ The attack is said to have caused several "200 and 300" (deaths and injuries). The big question, as 'Informant' comments, is "How the unmanned hull craft reached the ship at its berth."
3/ 'Evil Sailor' has "some very unpleasant questions for the border guards:
1. Why was the ship stationed in one place for so long when it was necessary to constantly change its base?
2. Why was the ship stationed in a completely unprotected area?
1. Why was the ship stationed in one place for so long when it was necessary to constantly change its base?
2. Why was the ship stationed in a completely unprotected area?
WARNING⚠️
Andy Burnham is running to be Prime Minister on the strength of the Manchester Model.
Before the country decides, it should know what that model did with £600 million of public money in its own backyard.
GMCA's housing loan fund lent around £600 million to a single private developer, Daren Whitaker of Renaker, to build the skyscrapers that have redrawn Manchester's skyline.
A tribunal found GMCA failed to obtain a statement of assets and liabilities from Whitaker before lending.
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Andy Burnham is running to be Prime Minister on the strength of the Manchester Model.
Before the country decides, it should know what that model did with £600 million of public money in its own backyard.
GMCA's housing loan fund lent around £600 million to a single private developer, Daren Whitaker of Renaker, to build the skyscrapers that have redrawn Manchester's skyline.
A tribunal found GMCA failed to obtain a statement of assets and liabilities from Whitaker before lending.
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A meeting between a senior GMCA officer and Whitaker at which loan terms appear to have been agreed produced no minutes or notes.
Court papers allege Renaker presented high profit figures to GMCA when seeking loans, and low profit figures to Manchester City Council when seeking affordable homes exemptions.
Court papers allege Renaker presented high profit figures to GMCA when seeking loans, and low profit figures to Manchester City Council when seeking affordable homes exemptions.
The outcomes from £600 million of public money:
11,000 homes built.
Fewer than 503 classed as affordable.
Under five percent.
Almost all the money went to central Manchester, serving the relatively affluent and offshore investors who bought apartments as buy-to-let vehicles.
11,000 homes built.
Fewer than 503 classed as affordable.
Under five percent.
Almost all the money went to central Manchester, serving the relatively affluent and offshore investors who bought apartments as buy-to-let vehicles.
Same old England. On first viewing I thought Tuchel’s subs were disastrous. On second viewing, the retreat happened beforehand, a consequence of Argentina pushing on & England being exhausted. The three defensive subs did make sense. Analysis here…⬇️
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First sub: England had ended up in a back five/six beforehand (see below) after Argentina used four up top. Gonzalez on down the left completely changed the game. If you’re going to end up with Rogers/Gordon as an uncomfortable wing-back, you may as well play a proper back five.
Second/third subs: James injured. Burn on & Konsa across: a bit primitive, but OK. Rice was done. England’s problem had been on the near side with Messi and De Paul's crossing (below). O’Reilly - who played midfield for two months last season - was a decent choice for the left.
When you realize why Salah timings are named “Fajr, Zuhr, Asr, Maghrib, Isha”
(You would never leave prayer again)
(You would never leave prayer again)
Have you ever wondered why the prayers are called Fajr, Zuhr, Asr, Maghrib, and Isha?
Allah prescribed each prayer at a specific time of the day, and every moment carries a beautiful reminder for the believer.
Allah prescribed each prayer at a specific time of the day, and every moment carries a beautiful reminder for the believer.
Fajr - when the first light breaks the darkness. Begin your day with Allah before the world.
Zuhr - when the day is at its busiest. Pause and remember the One who gives you strength.
Asr - as the day begins to fade. A reminder that this worldly life is passing.
Zuhr - when the day is at its busiest. Pause and remember the One who gives you strength.
Asr - as the day begins to fade. A reminder that this worldly life is passing.
